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All 42 letters of the Kazakh alphabet, with ә ғ қ ң ө ұ ү һ і on their own row and Latin hints from the 2021 alphabet on every key.

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Kazakh has changed alphabets twice in a century, and a third change is on the calendar. Until the late 1920s Kazakh was written in a reformed Arabic script, the same family of script that Kazakhs in China’s Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture still use officially today. In 1929 the Soviet authorities replaced it with a Latin alphabet, Yañalif. Eleven years later, in 1940, Latin was dropped for Cyrillic in a version reworked by the linguist Sarsen Amanzholov: the 33 Russian letters plus nine of its own (ә, ғ, қ, ң, ө, ұ, ү, һ and і), 42 letters in all. That is the alphabet on this keyboard, and the one Kazakh newspapers, schoolbooks and websites use today. In October 2017 a presidential decree ordered a switch to Latin by 2025. The first draft marked sounds like ş and ğ with apostrophes, and linguists objected that some words broke into four or five apostrophe-separated pieces; a revision signed on 19 February 2018 replaced most of them with acute accents. In January 2021 a third version was presented, with 31 letters and Turkish-style ä, ö, ü, ğ and ş, and the deadline moved to 2031. Until then, Cyrillic is what Kazakh readers expect.

Kazakh vowels come in pairs, and the pair decides the rest of the word. The back vowels а, о, ұ and ы have front partners ә, ө, ү and і, and suffixes follow the vowels of the root: бала becomes балалар (children), but әке becomes әкелер (fathers). So ұ versus ү, or ы versus і, is not a small spelling slip; choose the wrong one and every ending after it looks wrong too. қ is a k made further back in the throat than к, ғ is its voiced partner, and ң is the ng of “song”. Seven letters (ё, ц, ч, щ, ъ, ь and э) never appear in native Kazakh words; they are there for words borrowed from Russian.

The nine Kazakh letters are the ones that go missing. On the standard Kazakh layout that ships with Windows, ә, і, ң, ғ, ү, ұ, қ, ө and һ sit on the number-row keys 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 0, minus and equals. On an office or borrowed computer set to Russian there is no key for any of them, so people reach for the closest Russian letter: к for қ, у for ұ and ү, и for і. The message is still readable, but it is misspelled, and spell-checkers and search engines treat it as a different word. According to the 2021 census, 80.1% of Kazakhstan’s 19.2 million people speak Kazakh, yet only about half use it in daily life, and many of them work on Russian-layout machines. Kazakh also travels: about 1.56 million Kazakhs live in China, where the official script is Arabic, and there are Kazakh communities in Russia, Uzbekistan and Mongolia. This keyboard shows all 42 Cyrillic letters, with the nine Kazakh ones in their own top row.

Nine Letters Russian Doesn’t Have

Kazakh Cyrillic is the Russian alphabet plus nine letters of its own, and those nine carry most of what makes a word Kazakh.

42 letters9 Kazakh-onlyCyrillic since 1940Latin by 2031
The Kazakh nine

ә ғ қ ң ө ұ ү һ і

әғқңөұүһі

Linguist Sarsen Amanzholov added these nine to the 33 Russian letters in 1940. A Russian layout has no key for any of them.

қазақ — Kazakh · көл — lake · ұл — son
Vowel harmony

The root picks the suffix

а әұ үы і

Back vowels have front partners, and endings follow the root: -лар after а, -лер after ә. Mix up ұ and ү and every ending after it looks wrong.

балалар — children · әкелер — fathers
Where the keys are

On the number row

2 → ә0 → қ

The standard Kazakh layout puts the nine letters on the keys 2 3 4 5 8 9 0 - =. This page shows them as their own top row, so nothing is hidden.

2 ә · 3 і · 4 ң · 5 ғ · 8 ү · 9 ұ · 0 қ · - ө · = һ
Loanword letters

Seven letters only Russian words use

ё ц ч щъ ь э

These seven appear only in words borrowed from Russian. The 2021 Latin draft has no letters for them at all, so they are the first to go if Kazakh switches script.

цирк — circus · чемодан — suitcase
FAQ

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42 in the Cyrillic alphabet used today: the 33 letters of the Russian alphabet plus nine Kazakh letters, ә, ғ, қ, ң, ө, ұ, ү, һ and і. It was set in this form in 1940.
Nine: ә, ғ, қ, ң, ө, ұ, ү, һ and і. They are all on the top row of this keyboard, and a Russian layout has no key for any of them.
ұ is a back vowel and ү is its front partner, so they belong to different vowel-harmony groups. ұл means son; ү appears in words like күн (sun, day). Using the wrong one also changes which suffixes the word takes.
қ is pronounced further back in the throat than к. It goes with back vowels, as in қазақ (Kazakh) and қол (hand), while к goes with front vowels, as in көл (lake). In the 2021 Latin draft қ is written q.
No. і is a separate Kazakh vowel, the front partner of ы, as in бір (one). Typing и instead is a common workaround on Russian keyboards, but it is a spelling mistake in Kazakh.
ng, as in the English word “song”. It never starts a word. You can see it in мың (thousand) and жаңа (new).
On the standard Windows Kazakh layout it is on the 2 key. The other Kazakh letters are on 3 (і), 4 (ң), 5 (ғ), 8 (ү), 9 (ұ), 0 (қ), minus (ө) and equals (һ). On this page ә is the first key of the top row.
It is planned. A 2017 decree set 2025 as the deadline; in January 2021 a revised 31-letter Latin alphabet was presented and the target moved to 2031. For now, Cyrillic is the standard in Kazakhstan.
The first Latin draft of October 2017 marked many sounds with apostrophes, and linguists said some words broke into four or five pieces. A February 2018 revision replaced most apostrophes with acute accents, and the 2021 version uses Turkish-style letters such as ä, ö, ü, ğ and ş.
They are pronunciation hints. Wherever the 2021 Latin alphabet (April 2021 revision) has a letter, the hint uses it: ә → ä, қ → q, ң → ñ, ұ → ū, ү → ü, ш → ş. So the hints double as a preview of how Kazakh may be written after the switch.
This page types Kazakh Cyrillic, which is the standard today. The Latin hints on each key show the 2021 Latin spelling, but the text you copy is Cyrillic.
They are used only in words borrowed from Russian, such as цирк (circus). No native Kazakh word contains them.
Suffixes change to match the vowels of the root. Back-vowel words take back-vowel endings (балалар, children) and front-vowel words take front-vowel endings (әкелер, fathers). That is why each Kazakh vowel has a partner on the keyboard.
In Kazakhstan’s 2021 census, 80.1% of the population of 19.2 million said they speak Kazakh, about 15.4 million people. There are also about 1.56 million Kazakhs in China and communities in Russia, Uzbekistan and Mongolia.
Mostly not. In China’s Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture the official script for Kazakh is Arabic-based. This keyboard types the Cyrillic alphabet used in Kazakhstan.
It is the tenge sign, used for Kazakhstan’s currency. You will find it in the Special popup together with « » quotation marks and the № sign.
Go to Settings → Time & language → Language & region, add Kazakh, and Windows installs the standard Kazakh layout, the same one this page mirrors. Until then, you can type here and copy.
Абай Құнанбайұлы (1845–1904) is the classic poet of Kazakh literature. His Қара сөздер, the Book of Words, is a philosophical treatise, and he translated Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, Krylov’s fables and poems by Lermontov, Goethe and Byron into Kazakh. Abai Region, a city, a university and a main avenue in Almaty carry his name.

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